Israel has been attacking a number of nuclear services and navy bases throughout Iran since June 13, 2025. The unprecedented strike has triggered a days-long alternate of missile assaults between the 2 international locations. Tensions have continued to escalate, and the loss of life toll is rising.
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Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, Isfahan Nuclear Technology Centre, Shiraz missile manufacturing facility, and Tabriz North missile base had been among the many targets of Israel’s aerial assaults.
At least 585 folks, together with 239 civilians, have been killed in Iran since hostilities started on Friday (June 13, 2025), in accordance with a Washington-based Iranian human rights group. Meanwhile, 24 folks had been killed in Israel as of Monday (June 16, 2025) morning, in accordance with the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office.
The Israeli operation in opposition to Iran is predicted to take “weeks, not days” and is shifting ahead with implicit U.S. approval, in accordance with White House and Israeli officers.
Maxar Technologies and Planet Labs PBC have launched a number of images exhibiting extreme damage prompted to Iran’s navy bases and nuclear services in the Israeli assault.
Natanz nuclear facility
The Natanz nuclear facility, Iran’s largest uranium enrichment web site, has sustained vital damage in the Israeli strikes on June 13, 2025. Describing the location as “the heart of Iran’s ballistic missile programme,” mentioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasising its strategic significance.
A satellite tv for pc picture exhibits the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran in this handout picture dated January 24, 2025.
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On June 17, 2025, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported that there appeared to have been “direct impacts” on the underground sections of the Natanz web site.
“Based on continued analysis of high-resolution satellite imagery collected after Friday’s attacks, the IAEA has identified additional elements that indicate direct impacts on the underground enrichment halls at Natanz. No change to report at Esfahan and Fordow,” the company mentioned in a submit on X.
While the complete extent of the damage continues to be being assessed, the IAEA confirmed that one of many above-ground buildings — the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant — was destroyed. This facility had been producing uranium enriched as much as 60%.
The assault additionally broken key electrical infrastructure, together with the principle energy provide, emergency backup programs, and a substation.
Damaged buildings at Natanz nuclear facility.
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“There has been no indication of a physical attack on the underground cascade hall containing part of the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant and the main Fuel Enrichment Plant. However, the loss of power to the cascade hall may have damaged the centrifuges there,” the IAEA mentioned in an in depth assertion.
Regarding radiation ranges outdoors Natanz, the UN’s atomic watchdog mentioned they continue to be unchanged and at regular ranges, indicating no radiological influence on the inhabitants or setting. However, it famous that inside the power, there may be each radiological and chemical contamination.
Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center
At the Isfahan nuclear web site, constructed with Chinese help and opened in 1984, 4 buildings had been hit, together with a uranium conversion plant and a gasoline manufacturing facility.
The Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center (INTC) is Iran’s largest nuclear analysis complicated and employs roughly 3,000 scientists.
“At the Esfahan nuclear site, four buildings were damaged in Friday’s attack: the central chemical laboratory, a uranium conversion plant, the Tehran reactor fuel manufacturing plant, and the UF4 to EU metal processing facility, which was under construction. As in Natanz, off-site radiation levels remain unchanged,” IAEA acknowledged.
Fordow nuclear facility
The Fordow plant, buried deep in the mountains close to Qom, south of Tehran, is believed to deal with over 1,000 centrifuges, together with IR-6 machines able to enriching uranium to 60% purity. Its deeply buried location makes it one in every of Iran’s most fortified nuclear services. Satellite images captured on June 14, 2025, after the Israeli strikes present that the power seems to stay intact.
A satellite tv for pc picture exhibits the Fordo nuclear facility in Iran in this handout picture dated June 14, 2025.
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Piranshahr Garrison
The Piranshahr facility, situated close to the Iraqi border in western Iran, is reportedly a navy set up. Satellite imagery exhibits a small navy construction that seems to have been largely flattened by the strikes.
An earlier picture from Maxar Technologies, taken final month, exhibits the location with automobiles seen for scale.
Tabriz missile base
Satellite imagery launched on Monday (June 16, 2025) by Planet Labs exhibits in depth damage at a missile base north of the Iranian metropolis of Tabriz, capital of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province.
The satellite tv for pc images beneath, taken on June 3 and June 16, 2025, present the doorway to the underground facility on the Tabriz North missile base earlier than and after it was hit by Israeli airstrikes.
The images reveal destroyed buildings and automobiles, together with giant areas of scorched vegetation. The images beneath, taken on June 3 and June 16, 2025, present the help space of the Tabriz North missile base earlier than and after it was hit by Israeli airstrikes.
The Tabiz base is a key ballistic missile manufacturing unit in Iran.
The composite picture beneath, created utilizing satellite tv for pc photographs launched by Maxar Technologies, exhibits a tunnel entrance on the Tabriz missile facility in Tabriz, Iran — first on May 29, 2025 (prime), after which on June 17, 2025, after it was struck by Israeli airstrikes.
Tabriz missile facility in Tabriz, Iran.
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The picture beneath exhibits one other tunnel entrance on the Tabriz missile facility.
A tunnel entrance on the Tabriz missile facility.
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Kermanshah missile facility
At a missile base operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) close to the western province of Kermanshah, satellite tv for pc images reveal in depth damage brought on by Israeli airstrikes. High-resolution imagery taken on June 15, 2025, exhibits a number of buildings on the facility focused, and several other buildings destroyed.
Notably, damage can be seen at two tunnel entrances constructed into the mountainside, that are possible used to retailer or conceal delicate missile-related gear.
Satellite images launched by Planet Labs on June 15, 2025, present broken services at Kermanshah missile services, western Iran on June 15, 2025.
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IRGC Ghadir web site in Tehran
The images beneath present the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Ghadir web site in Tehran earlier than (May 1, 2025) and after (June 14, 2025) it was hit by Israeli airstrikes.
Bid Kaneh navy facility
The Bid Kaneh navy base, situated about 30 km west of Tehran, has reportedly sustained damage to a number of buildings.
Damaged buildings at Bid Kaneh navy facility in Iran.
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This isn’t the primary time the power has suffered severe damage. In 2011, a big explosion reportedly killed a number of personnel believed to have been engaged on Iran’s missile program.
Dezful airbase
Dezful Airbase, often known as Vahdati Airbase, is situated on Andimeshk Road in town of Dezful, in Iran’s Khuzestan province.
This mixture of satellite tv for pc images, launched by Maxar Technologies on June 17, 2025, exhibits a close-up view of an Iranian tanker plane (KC-707 refueler) on the parking apron on the northwestern finish of Dezful Airbase, Iran — seen on June 13, 2025, earlier than it was hit by Israeli airstrikes (prime), and on June 17, 2025, after the strike (backside).
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The base is traditionally vital as the house of the Fourth Fighter Base, which performed an important function in the course of the Iran-Iraq War in the Eighties.
Dezful Airbase in Iran.
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Sources: Maxar Technologies, Planet Labs PBC, Reuters, AP, IAEA, ISW, IDF, Nuclear Threat Initiative, SkyBrary.aero, and Tehran Times
Published – June 18, 2025 03:33 pm IST
